“US Gambling Lobby Group Spent 900k in First Half of 2007″
August 23, 2007, Posted By Tom Jones, Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
Just a few days after the UK was not-so-shocked to find that Bet365, an online gambling company, gave more than 150,000 pounds in contributions to Gordon Brown’s Labour Party, the US lobbying group, The American Gaming Association, released their reports that declared more than $900,000 was spent lobbying Washington politicians the first half of 2007.
The American Gaming Association represents the majority of the major land based gambling companies in the US, such as Harrah’s Entertainment, Bally Technologies, and MGM Mirage. There are fifty more gambling related companies that the group represents.
All lobby groups in the US are required by federal law to report their spending if their intentions are to influence the executive or legislative branches.
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